The mob is the mother of tyrants.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I can move any crowd.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.